Seasonal Monitor for Southern Africa, Horn of Africa, West Africa Sahel and Eastern Regions
This platform can be used to obtain information of meteorological and agricultural drought hazards on a near real-time seasonal basis for countries within Southern Africa, Horn of Africa, West Africa Sahel and Eastern Regions.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- Date
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard
- Credit
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N/A
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
- Update scope
- Platform
- Theme
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Type: Platform
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Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural Drought
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Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard
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Extent: Countries within Southern Africa, Horn of Africa, West Africa Sahel and Eastern Regions
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- Use limitation
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None
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Date
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
- Distance
- Aggregation period: N/A
- Distance
- Spatial scale: Not relevant
Spatial resolution
- Metadata language
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eng
- Description
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Countries within Southern Africa, Horn of Africa, West Africa Sahel and Eastern Regions
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- Begin date
- N/A
- End date
- near real-time
- Date (Revision)
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / No Spatial Reference given / 7.9
- Distribution format
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Various
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Various
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- OnLine resource
- http://vam.wfp.org/sites/seasonal_monitor/afs/
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Description
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Countries within Southern Africa, Horn of Africa, West Africa Sahel and Eastern Regions
Temporal Extent
Vertical extent
- Dataset
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Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard
Non quantitative attribute accuracy
- Measure description
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N/A
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
Conformance result
- Date (Revision)
- Pass
Conformance result
- Date
Completeness omission
- Name of measure
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Codelist omission
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
Conformance result
- Date (Revision)
- Pass
- Statement
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Data requirements to use: None;
Data used: NDVI, rainfall,;
Data format: .pdf;
Data access: website;
Concise description:
Animations showing how cumulative rainfall, vegetation index, 30-day rainfall and start of season evolved during the current season compared to average trends for the alst 20 years. Reports are also provided.
Indices included:
Rainfall, NDVI
- File identifier
- f1f35f4d-03c0-4a48-be99-d2b6b3d3d7e3 XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Platform
- Hierarchy level name
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Seasonal Monitor for Southern Africa, Horn of Africa, West Africa Sahel and Eastern Regions
- Date stamp
- 2022-02-07T11:04:38
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Dataset URI
Overviews
Spatial extent
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